To cut child poverty in Australia to the low levels of Nordic Europe would be a genuinely bold reform which everyone should now support, writes Andrew Scott.
The most recent United Nations data continues to show that the four main Nordic European nations - Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland - have much lower levels of poverty, far less inequality, and much greater wellbeing, among children than do the US, Britain and Australia. Professor Fiona Stanley, 2003 Australian of the Year and Norman Gillespie, chief executive of UNICEF Australia, writing in The Age (December 6, 2010) highlight how this report's comparison "of 27 OECD countries shows that Australia spends just one-quarter of the leading country, Finland, and almost half the OECD average on...
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The most recent United Nations data continues to show that the four main Nordic European nations - Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland - have much lower levels of poverty, far less inequality, and much greater wellbeing, among children than do the US, Britain and Australia. Professor Fiona Stanley, 2003 Australian of the Year and Norman Gillespie, chief executive of UNICEF Australia, writing in The Age (December 6, 2010) highlight how this report's comparison "of 27 OECD countries shows that Australia spends just one-quarter of the leading country, Finland, and almost half the OECD average on...
http://www.educationreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Opinion&idArticle=19837
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